mosiacmango @ mosiacmango @lemm.ee

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Somehow missed him, but I would say John normans "Gor" is another example.

I still cringe when I remember chatting with a used bookstore clerk while checking out and off hand said "with a cover like that, it's got to be good." Dude gave me a slight pity smile and sold me the book.

It was not good. The raw shittiness of "dominant man enslaves submissive woman and she likes it" got old real fast.

If "they have to use good data and actually fact check what they say to people" kills "all machine leaning models" then it's a death they deserve.

The fact is that you can do the above, it's just much, much harder (you have to work with data from trusted sources), much slower (you have to actually validate that data), and way less profitable (your AI will be able to reply to way less questions) then pretending to be the "answer to everything machine."

If an author constantly talked positively about the rape in the book, explained it away, told people why this rape was actually something positive for the victim, on and on, then yeah, you could very succinctly call the author "pro-rape."

OP listed multiple elements that make it clear Zahn is specifically opposed to abortion and just thinly forcing "pro-life" talking points into the book via largely wooden characters.

When sane and reasonable characters would make different choices but none are possible because of the author refusing to acknowledge them, then yeah, its not hard to pin down his stance on the matter.

They don't care until they don't have any truckers. Then they care.

If its a big company like old dominion, they likely wont give a fuck ever, but my company always has trouble keeping hold of truckers and they really do give a shit about the churn.

How very george lucas of you.

More "I want to see whose fucking around, but not find out with them."

When you're interested in something, but not engaged with it.

If you have a strong burner, the recommended carbon steel wok works great too, even on my electric stove. Im stunned at how fast it heats up and what a good job it does even in my inexperienced hands.

Kenji, a serious eats alumni, has an award winning wok book I picked up at the same time. It's a beast, covering tons of different cuisine and methods. Really great combo.

Id recommend going for carbon steel instead of teflon if all clad or stainless steel is too much work.

For like $40-100, they heat up insanely well, are very light and will last your lifetime. They form an excellent non stick coating after several uses just like cast iron.

No cap fr fr

Step one seems to be "find a new market" now that you cant use this one anymore.

AI's second innovation, besides letting you mass fire labor, is removing all blame for any decision as long as you can thinly point to AI being involved.

It outsources responsibility, and our legal/political/moral systems are not built to handle it.

You should also know they were bought a couple years back by IGN, and have drastically increased the minimum "tip" amount in bundles that you give them while also hiding the sliders more. Instead of being the $1 of old humble, its now $7.50.

They also changed the choice discount you get on their direct store to slowly ramp up to 20% only when you stay subscribed for 12 months straight. It resets to 0% if you pause a month. The 20% off also has random exclusions, so it just doesn't apply, or applies at some lesser rate at their whim.

Its not a bad site, but it's slowly enshittifying a hallowed name in gaming.

More scalable is hilarious. They take like 10 years to build and cost 18 billion dollars to get 1GW steady state.

Meanwhile, we can whip out 1GW of solar in 2yrs for 2 billion, and do it in modular sections. You don't have steady state, but you could build solar out to compete with enough battery and high voltage transmission lines, with basically zero nuclear hurdles. It would cost, but it is viable now and much faster, and that's with current tech. Batteries and panels are just getting cheaper and better.

There is only one active thorium reactor in the world, and its 2MW test plant in China, out in the Gobi desert. They just managed to refuel it for the first time, which is a great milestone, but in no way, shape or form are thorium reactors a viable power source anywhere else on earth, much less "so portable they fit in a 40ft shipping container."

Renewables and batteries have steady output and can be built much faster and cheaper than nuclear. It's why 94% of all new power generation globally in 2024 was renewables.

Sure. His first comment excused this brutal US behavior by saying "Europe has immigration laws too," implying what the US just did to a 35 yr legal, green card holding US resident was fine and ordinary.

His second comment ignored me asking about how Europe treats immigrants and answered a different question by saying that "they can't just stay in Europe."

This has almost nothing to do with what happened to this man. He has been detained in his legal country of residence, his home of 35 years, for no crime. He was detained while literally leaving the country, something that you would expect immigration would want if they didn't want him here.

At no point did he "stay too long" in the US as that isn't possible. Even if he somehow could, which he could not, he was still literally leaving.

So this case is nothing like European laws having to do with overstaying a visa. Bringing it up in a "duh guys, it's just like the laws everywhere else" way is a disingenuous deflection from the fact that no, it is not. That is why they are being downvoted.

I think its the amazing screw on head, as it had an armed ape antagonist.

So no European country detained him? Glad we have that straight.

As to your asinine "overstaying in the country" point for the US, he has a green card and has been a legal US resident for 35 years. Its his country of residence. How can he "overstay?"

And lastly, as an entirely extraneous point, he was literally on a plane, leaving the country. How was that in anyway, shape or form "staying in the country" when he was on a vehicle in the literal process of leaving the country?

Which European country detained him? How was he treated while being processed by said country?